April 28, 2021
Featured in this week's Book Talk Bakersfield:
Join Kern County Library staff members, Fahra and Jasmin to talk about reading slumps and why they are okay. Catch up on what they have been reading, watching, and listening to for the week. 
 
Fahra Daredia
Beale Memorial Library
Jasmin LoBasso
Kern County Library
Fahra is reading...

The Theft of Sunlight
by Intisar Khanani

A sequel to Thorn finds a young woman breaking silence when children throughout her community begin disappearing, before a visit to the palace leads to an unlikely relationship and a life-risking confrontation. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary
 
 
Unfinished: A Memoir
by Priyanka Chopra

In a revealing memoir, readers will accompany one of the world’s most recognizable women on her journey of self-discovery. 
 
Also available as eBook on CloudLibrary 
Also available as eBook on OverDrive
 
 
Fahra is watching...
 
The Baker and the Beauty 
Netflix & Amazon Prime 

Daniel Garcia is working in the family bakery and doing everything that his loving Cuban parents and siblings expect him to do, until his life changes unexpectedly on a wild Miami night with a chance encounter with Noa Hollander at a fancy restaurant. Noa is an international superstar, the daughter of a real estate magnate and a successful model, just out of a high-profile Hollywood relationship. Sparks fly between the two and the unlikely couple must decide whether to upend their lives to be together, pulling their families into an inevitable culture clash.
 

Jasmin is reading...
 
The Llamacorn Is Kind
by Kate Coombs

Bright illustrations and endearing rhymes depict the magical one-horned residents of colorful Llamacorn Land, where such friends as the Buffalocorn, the Walruscorn and the Tigercorn learn lessons about sharing, playing pretend and being nice to others.
 
 
Time Travel for Love and Profit
by Sarah Lariviere

When math prodigy Nephele invents a time travel app so she can redo her terrible freshman year of high school, there are unexpected consequences.
 
Also available as ebook on CloudLibrary

Jasmin is watching...
I Care A Lot 
Netflix
 
A shady legal guardian lands in hot water when she tries to bilk a woman who has ties to a powerful gangster.
 

Even More Titles We Talk About

    Books
    Baby Penguins Love Their Mama! by Melissa Guion
    Blue Penguin by Petr Horáek
    The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
    Crafty Llama by Mike Kerr
    Lobizona by Romina Garber
    The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
    You Had Me at Hola  by Alexis Daria
     
    Shows/Movies 
    Cocomelon
    Indian Idol 
    Masked Singer
    Shadow and Bone
    Spontaneous